The Astrodome, seen in 1969 (Photo by Houston Astros/MLB Photos via Getty Images) When voters rejected a $217M proposal to turn Houston's Astrodome--the world's first domed sports stadium—into a multi-purpose convention center in fall 2013, it looked like the crumbling...

Photo from the Area 214 Facebook page Professional Snowboarder Mike Basich may be done making a name for himself in competitions, but he's been making waves with a new video that shows just how cool his 228-square-foot self-sustaining home...

Photos: Facebook via Wired Ever since it was unveiled in 2013, Facebook's scheme for its new Menlo Park headquarters has wrestled to contain twin impulses: enormousness and casualness, environmentalism and car dependency. When Gehry Partners came out with a design...

Photos via Dezeen For his latest project, "Time Sliced," New York photographer Richard Silver photographs iconic buildings around the world over the course of a sunset and then splices the images together, a technique he describes to Dezeen as...

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Price: $719,000 Designed in 1955 by the modernist architect Carl Graffunder for his sister and her family, this delightful four-bedroom "case study" house in Minneapolis, Minnesota comes with a tiled shuffleboard court in the living room....

Photo by Paul Warchol via Gluck+ If one can be sure of anything, it's that when architects design their own homes, the end result is going to be high on style. And with a new piece that interviews several architects...

Photos via NY Daily News Cleveland's Variety Theater, once a thriving Warner Brothers playhouse, movie house, and live music venue, is now in ruins. Local preservationists The Friends of the Historic Variety Theatre, who purchased the Spanish gothic-style property for...

The new Lincoln Continental Concept integrates technology to create a better driving experience while rejuvenating and entertaining passengers. Technology is a hallmark of the vehicle and it begins with the vehicle sensing your approach and lighting up to greet...

Photos via Office Snapshots It's somehow a relief to find out that purpose-built offices are still being built without quirky amenities, like goal posts or adult ballpits. The new Kalamazoo design center for cleaning product company Newell Rubbermaid shows...

All photos by Xia Zhi via Dezeen "Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music"—these words from German writer and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are the inspiration behind Soundwave, a new installation by Vienna and Beijing-based architecture firm Penda....

Beloved modernist John Lautner produced many of Southern California's most legendary and distinctive homes, from his mushroom-capped Palm Spring estate for Bob Hope to his curvaceous concrete gem, the Silvertop Estate, which recently sold, to the president of Beats...

Location: Denver, Colorado Price: $1,985,000 Built three years before the Silver Crash of 1893, the historic Waldron Bonfils Mansion was constructed just as the frontier boomtown of Denver, Colorado was coming into its own as a cosmopolitan city, with...

Image courtesy Playboy.com This drawing shows a tunnel running underneath the Playboy Mansion to the "residence of Mr J. Nicholson." It's one of a couple blueprints found in the unfinished basement of the Mansion in Holmby Hills that also...

All photos by Wade Griffith via PV14 House Now that shipping containers have been used for everything from an artist commune and bar to a mansion and library, it's neat to see the good old steel boxes get repurposed for...

A photo posted by Ashley Milardo (@ashley812m) on Mar 30, 2015 at 11:16pm PDT On March 30, 2015, Facebook officially opened its new campus in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley, though employees started moving in over the weekend. Designed...

Curbed sister site Eater is busy polling the masses to generate a list of the most important New York City restaurants from the last 50 years (think: scene, food, wine list, magic sauce). One important element in a culinary...

Photos by Daici Ano via Morfae Tokyo is now home to the world's most calming, minimalist chocolate shop. Created by the Japanese designer Nendo, the new outpost of the Belgium-based chocolatier BbyB displays its wares in a "floating" transparent shelf...